So Monica and Kate and I signed up for a holiday craft fair up in the islands. Having two months to make enough quilts to justify a booth really makes life interesting - we're aiming for a dozen actual quilts (all lap size) + various and sundry holiday craft items, mostly potholders & table runner style stuff. I have three baby quilts ready to go but they're a bit summery, I'll bring them along anyway and see what happens. I've had lots of ideas recently about stuff I'd like to make but the deadline helps get my ass in gear. Also the fact that we're making lap size quilts makes it way less daunting than making bed sized ones.
I am trying to do a lot of this out of my stash, which is obscene, but have found myself at the fabric store a couple of times on accident. WHOOPS! This beige one was all stash, I can't really remember why I bought a bunch of beige solids but I am LOVING it. I have wanted to make a bento box for a long time, and there was an article in a Martha mag with a yellow and white bento box folded up on the back of a chair and it was so comfortable that I just wanted it right away. This one is going to be awesome.
I am trying to do a lot of this out of my stash, which is obscene, but have found myself at the fabric store a couple of times on accident. WHOOPS! This beige one was all stash, I can't really remember why I bought a bunch of beige solids but I am LOVING it. I have wanted to make a bento box for a long time, and there was an article in a Martha mag with a yellow and white bento box folded up on the back of a chair and it was so comfortable that I just wanted it right away. This one is going to be awesome.
Monica's boyfriend's mom let me borrow her quilting frame but I don't have a suitable machine - here's hoping the birthday bunny comes through with a Juki mid-arm. I am secretly hoping (and not-so-secretly hinting) that my friends might make donations to the birthday juki fund? It's a little expensive, especially since I am trying to go to Australia in the spring, but think of how quickly I could whip out quilts! I have a dozen tops ready to go, it's just such a hassle wrestling them through my wee (and thoroughly beloved) Pfaff.
other current (new) projects/ideas:
-a floral irish chain I bought way too much fabric for when I worked at the quilt shop and now have no idea why I loved it so much, I guess my style has changed!
-an amish roman stripe on charcoal, bordered in silver and then plum, SO EXCITED
-something like the Happy Hour pattern in non-christmasy reds and greens
-trying to find a pattern to use all the horrid pinks I collected during my pink phase and now make me sort of sick to my stomach, without making it so... pink. I think maybe bordering it with A LOT of white, but then it's not much of a stashbuster, is it?
-playing around with text on a quilt, making one with my name on it or maybe just a giant monogram to test it out
-a blue and white snowball/churn dash that goes over the edges of the quilt - will bind it in bright green or bright red
-seeing what happens when I take a traditional pattern and make it "float" by chopping off the edges in a non-traditional place
-an irish chain or nine-patch in 30s prints with an apple green background
whew! some of these I've started, some I haven't, and I'm sure I'll get lots more ideas in the next couple of months. Look for more posts soon I hope!
Love, Abby
